I have been a member of PCS and predecessor Union, CPSA since 1992, became a Health and Safety rep soon after becoming a Civil Servant and joining the Union, and I am currently the branch chair for Crown Prosecution Service, East Midlands and Eastern branch, representing members across 8 counties.

I have been the elected President since the CPS became a Group in 2006 and I am also currently the lead on the GEC for Health, Safety and Wellbeing.

I have been proud to serve on the NEC for 6 electoral terms from 2018 and have worked on the Health and Safety and Bargaining and Personnel Policy Committees, in developing key national PCS policies.

I have been Union activist for over 30 years and a member of the progressive Unity group within Left Unity. I am a socialist and have always applied basic socialist principles to my work in representing members at workplace, Branch and Group level.

Our opponents have caused disgraceful and deliberate chaos over the last 12 months, both at our national delegate conference last year and collectively as a majority on the NEC this year. They conspired to ensure a very progressive national organising strategy was voted down at our national delegate conference last May, which means we no longer have an organising strategy as policy.

They have also joined forces to become a majority on your National Executive Committee and, purely in their own interests and for the sake of being contrary, have voted down some very progressive policy papers and recommended actions put forward by the General Secretary and other senior Union officers, a crucial one being the call to suspend the strike Levy, which I and my Democracy Alliance colleagues are in full support of. 

This negative and reactive behaviour shows that our opponents are totally self-serving and certainly not working in your best interests. We need to return to a majority Democracy Alliance led Union as soon as possible, to restore order and return PCS to being a progressive, member-focused Trade Union.

I stand for a united Union, based upon its progressive, founding principles and condemn the actions of the self-serving sectarians in the so-called alliance for change.

If I am elected back to the National Executive Committee, I will continue to work hard for our Union and the members we serve and lead; to further our aims and fight for improved terms and conditions. Our priorities are: achieving fair and equal pay; protecting pensions and the compensation scheme; health, safety and wellbeing at work, and the recruitment of new members, representatives and advocates to stabilise and build the future of PCS.